On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the third thought, this entire feature can be implemented in the
> metaclass by injecting A = 'A' in the dict in __prepare__.
That would be the easiest, and least magical, solution. It simply
means that the name of the current class is available as a
pseudo-reference to itself, for typing purposes only. It parallels
function recursion, which is done using the function's name:
# Recursion in functions
def spam():
return spam()
# Recursion in type annotations
class Spam:
def make_spam() -> Spam:
return self
Clean and simple. And there's less magic here than super() - a lot less.
It does mean that Spam.Spam == "Spam" forever afterwards, but I doubt
that's going to break anything. It'd be just like __name__, except
that currently, Spam.__name__ is set afterwards, so it's not available
during class definition (and the module's name will be used instead).
ChrisA
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